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When Circle Health was founded, the organization made a promise to the community of Lowell, Mass., to provide “complete connected care”. Circle Health leaders truly believe that technology will be the cornerstone of their success. We spoke with Brian Sandager, chief information officer, on the role interoperability plays in creating a healthy community....
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Hospital Marina Salud, Dénia in Spain is the first ever non-U.S. hospital to earn the HIMSS Davies Enterprise Award. Davies Award recipients are HIMSS Stage 7 or 6 organizations that demonstrate significant, sustainable improvement of patient outcomes through the utilization of Electronic Health Records and information technology while achieving return on financial investment....
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I see Cerner’s acquisition of Siemens Health Services as a win for patients and the industry. The blending of these two cultures will challenge the old ways and enhance the combined companies’ solution offerings....
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Heartland Regional Medical Center's vision of the Patient Accounting implementation included the ability to implement the suite of Cerner solutions, such as implementing the Women’s Health solution in complex inpatient and ambulatory practices....
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Adventist
Health’s recognition as one of the best users of information technology was acknowledgement
to the Roseville, California-based system of their approach to make health IT a
priority. Their commitment to technology led to its recognition as one of the
nation’s Most Wired facilities. One of these technology enhancements include
the recent implementation of Cerner’s revenue cycle solution....
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Cerner’s Healthy Nevada initiative with the town of Nevada, Missouri was recently featured in a 5-part series from KBIA, mid-Missouri public radio station. Erik Gallimore, Senior Director of Healthy Nevada shares a deeper insight into this initiative....
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Seattle-based Virginia Mason has one of Cerner’s largest patient portals – over 92,000 members. Roughly 30% of Virginia Mason patients use the patient portal. You can credit the high membership success to several things: the tech-savvy population, the physician-friendly Cerner interface, and the marketing expertise of the Virginia Mason team....
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Two of our clients recently achieved a first in electronically connecting with their state's department of health (DOH). Using our Cerner Hub Immunization Registry solution, these organizations are submitting public health data to their state immunization registries and reaching meaningful use stage 2. Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center (CSV) was the first hospital to submit to the New Mexico DOH, and Wood County Hospital (WCH) was the first hospital to connect in real-time to the Ohio DOH. Both organizations are able to meet their interoperability goals around MU2, but they are also realizing benefits beyond this mandate.

In April, close to 100 clinicians,
healthcare technology experts, regulators, patient safety advocates, researchers, and leaders in the medical
device industry gathered in Arlington, VA, to kick off an unprecedented two-year initiative to improve
alarm management in healthcare. Ashleigh shares how she sees alarm management evolving
over the next 10 years.

Miami Children’s Hospital (MCH) has unique relationships with the families of its surgical patients. Surgery is understandably stressful and often also confusing for young patients and families alike. To help educate the families, cardiac surgeons are using surgical camera technology in the operating room (OR) to capture operative images that are used to help convey to families the scope of the child’s surgery and to document the surgery within their EMR to support post treatment and follow-up....
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